Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jeshgrca Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 08:35:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <87r0tb1vqn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <0v00fjxalp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1j23fjx089.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <_JidnVh5TPo6UoL5nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c3ae7e37f4e7ce5196172f3b841d735b"; logging-data="2863347"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19VASOUOqvTzLE8GGkOL700CtZTk6piEJ8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lIhFbyq6Ao4F28U8ln2DFzbQgX0= sha1:dDqgBpSmwdZ+3mNdWEjOZHz41fw= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37650 "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> writes: > On 3/25/23 7:30 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2023-03-24 21:27, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote: >>> I welcome and appreciate these comments, but am not sure I fully >>> understand >>> them yet: >>> >>> *+-> >>> *+->  ?? 'dd' could do the copy too - but you have to be REALLY >>> *+->  ?? sure about the exact dest point on the hdd. >>> >>> *+-The procedure would be: >>> >>> *+- - Create a partition (empty) in that 10g empty space >>> >>> *+- - dd the iso into the partition >>> >>> *+-dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdXy bs=1MiB >>> >>> *+-Not sure it can be booted. >> If you don't understand this then I'm not going to explain. Too >> dangerous, sorry. >> Go the virtualbox route instead. > > Absolutely agreed. Our 'tricks' can TRASH his > whole system if not done *perfectly* ... and > he doesn't seem to be extremely experienced > with -IX systems. > > VBox WILL do what he desires - pretty easily and > cleanly and at no risk. His old disrto will even > gain some perks by "filtering through" the VBox > system. > > Hmmm ... you'd THINK a live distro with all those > math/stat extras would have been perpetuated by > somebody. "Scientific Linux" might have been it, > but that seems to have fallen a bit by the > proverbial wayside (as with all the RPM universe > after the IBM/RHEL thing). > openSUSE is an RPM-based distro whose downstream (SLE) is officially supported by IBM on their systems, and it works perfectly well for me... -- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Attributed to Albert Einstein